Here Come The Habibs

[icyfroth]

A public petition, started by Lebanese-Australian poet Candy Royalle, calls on Channel Nine to pull the show.

While the show has yet to air, the trailer has left many highly sceptical. It’s not hard to see why.

The trailer is cartoonish, filled with stereotypical trappings of Arab culture. The family patriarch is dressed in a singlet and sandals. His son is a weight-lifting meathead who thinks a $22 million lotto win makes his family billionaires.

The women in the show appear exotic and vain, preening and shimmying around the house. 

The show’s highly exaggerated depiction of Lebanese-Australian culture comes in much the same vein as Pizza, which started airing on SBS in 2000. That’s not surprising, as its creators are Rob Shehadie and Tahir Bilgic, who both starred in Pizza and its movie spinoff Fat Pizza. 

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Will you be watching it?

It it's too stupid like Housos, I won't be.

[esayaf]

Housos would be stupid if it wasn't so accurate

[icyfroth]

Which is another reason don't watch it.

[raptor_rebooted]

if its anything like fat pizza then

it should be good lol

(has anyone petitioned to ban that?)

or acropolis now - anyone complain

about that?  wogs our of work?

effie still appears on the morning show

from time to time. 

[icyfroth]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

if its anything like fat pizza then

it should be good lol

(has anyone petitioned to ban that?)

or acropolis now - anyone complain

about that?  wogs our of work?

effie still appears on the morning show

from time to time. 

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I know, it's ridiculous isn't it? Seeing the producers are Lebanese and Turkish respectively showing the funny side of their interaction with Australian culture. 

Just as Greek producers Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares did back in the day With Acropolis Now and Wog Boy, Who Let Wogs Out etc.

Nobody thought to ban Housos which lampooned white trash, dole bludging, drug taking and alcoholism.

Now the lebs feel targeted oh diddums.

I'm sure Hubs will be watching it anyway, he loved housos, and I watched sometimes as well, out of morbid fascination.

[legarlu]

It's called a sense of humour..... everyone is so precious these days.

[esayaf]

I'm guessing that the reason there wasn't an uproar about Housos is that it's kinda like a funny documentary

[legarlu]

I hate to admit it but I did watch housos.

[bluecat*dancing]

There was an uproar about SBS screening Housos.

[esayaf]

Well I stand corrected then. Still was a funny documentary